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A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University tracks the sun’s path across the sky. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment

Inside one of Pennsylvania’s most energy-efficient buildings

In 2018, the building generated 75% more energy than it consumed–thanks to more than 500 solar panels on the roof, a ground-mounted solar array, and 20 geothermal wells.

7 years ago

Close up photo of a mosquito on a leaf
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

After a wet spring, Pa. DEP monitors for West Nile virus. Will this summer be bad?

Last year was one of the worst on record for West Nile in Pennsylvania. The number of cases jumped to 130, from 20 in 2017, and eight people died.

7 years ago

The view from a dorm room on Stockton's Atlantic City campus. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Environment
New Jersey

Facing a Jersey Shore underwater, Stockton proposes coastal resiliency institute in Atlantic City

Rising sea levels threaten to inundate Jersey Shore communities. Stockton University sees an opportunity as towns build their defenses.

7 years ago

A Doppler radar image from the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, N.J., shows a concentration of heavy rain and thunderstorms. (National Weather Service Doppler Radar Image)
The Why
Environment
Public Safety

Are we doing severe weather alerts wrong?

It's not all in your head — If you live in the Philadelphia region, you have actually been getting more severe weather alerts on your phone lately. Why?

Air Date: July 2, 2019

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Astronaut
The Pulse
Economy
Space
Technology

Who owns the moon?

If you want to own a plot of lunar land, there are websites that will sell you one. Are those websites for real?

7 years ago

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The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage in lunar orbit in 1969 with with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard. The Earth rises above the lunar horizon. (Photo credit: NASA)
The Pulse
Politics
Space
Technology

Why haven’t we gone back to the moon?

Short answer: money

7 years ago

Listen 11:34
Traffic on I-95 heads south toward Center City.
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia
Public Health
PlanPhilly

New study finds elevated risk of pollution exposure in some of Philly’s hottest neighborhoods

Some of Philadelphia’s most desirable neighborhoods come with a risk of increased exposure to auto-related air pollution.

7 years ago

Fire fighters battle flames at the PES refinery in June 2019. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Public Safety
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Philadelphia refinery fire investigators to examine potential for release of dangerous chemical

A hydrogen fluoride release could have had deadly consequences.

7 years ago

A clinging jellyfish that was found in an Ocean County river. (Image courtesy of Dr. Paul Bologna)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Toxic jellyfish now found further south in Barnegat Bay

An expert says toxic clinging jellyfish have been found for the first time south of a popular Barnegat Bay boating area off southern Island Beach State Park. 

7 years ago

The number of medical marijuana patients has more than doubled in the last year. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Three Pa. med schools tapped for medical marijuana research programs

The Health Department says it plans to approve five more partnerships between marijuana growers and research centers this summer.

7 years ago

 A female horseshoe crab is hidden under a large number of smaller sized males. (Bas Slabbers for WHYY, file)
Biology
Delaware
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

With bird populations at stake, naturalists renew calls to halt horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay

Conservation groups led by New Jersey Audubon are renewing their efforts to persuade the other bay states — Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — to ban the crab harvest.

7 years ago

Researchers dropped more than 17,000 wallets with varying amounts of money in countries around the world. Here, an example of the wallets that held the most money. (Christian Zünd)
NPR
International

What dropping 17,000 wallets around the globe can teach us about honesty

The researchers assumed that putting money in the wallet would make people less likely to return it, because the payoff would be bigger. But researchers saw the opposite.

7 years ago

The Pulse
Home & Family
Technology

The Science of Everyday Objects

From penicillin to the moon landing, we have science to thank for humanity’s greatest achievements. But science has also helped advance ...

Air Date: June 21, 2019

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Calpine's York 2 Energy Center is an 828 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in York County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate focus intensifies in Harrisburg, as budget negotiations and citizen-led petition advance

Parallel efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania — a citizen climate petition and a provision in the state budget — are topics of discussion in Harrisburg.

7 years ago

Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological form of plastic. (Chris Joyce/NPR)
NPR
Environment

Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?

Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them.

7 years ago

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